uncle abner造句

• Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner.
• The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of " the finest mysteries ever written ".
• Uncle Abner solved the mysteries that confronted him in a backwoods West Virginia community, immediately prior to the American Civil War and before the infant nation had any proper police system.
• One example of Uncle Abner's keen deductive skills is his showing a deaf man had not written a document, because a word in it was phonetically mis-spelt.
• Few of the characters from the previous novels appear but the antagonist is once again the evil sorcerer Selznak ( although referred to as " Uncle Abner " in the story . ) The book was first published as an Ace paperback by Berkley Books.
• Perhaps the first modern English work that can be classified as both historical fiction and a mystery however is the 1911 Melville Davisson Post story " The Angel of the Lord, " which features amateur detective Uncle Abner in pre-American Civil War West Virginia.
• Uncle Abner is Post's best-known literary creation, the character, one of six detectives created by Post, having appeared in 22 stories that were serialized in American magazines ( primarily " The Saturday Evening Post " ) between 1911 and 1928.
• Barry Zeman of the Mystery Writers of America calls the Uncle Abner short stories " the starting point for true historical mysteries . " In 1944 Agatha Christie published " Death Comes as the End ", a mystery novel set in ancient Egypt and the first full-length historical whodunit.
• Ellery Queen would later call the stories " an out-of-this-world target for future detective-story writers . " In his 1924 book of literary criticism " Cargoes for Crusoes ", Grant Overton called the publication of Post's " The Doomdorf Mystery " a " major literary event ", and in " Murder for Pleasure " ( 1941 ), Howard Haycraft called Uncle Abner " the greatest American contribution " to the list of fictional detectives after Edgar Allan Poe's C . Auguste Dupin.